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2025 Summer Golf Camps on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

Golf courses are full, empty stalls at the driving range are often hard to find, and open slots at junior golf camps tend to disappear fast.  Participation in golf remains incredibly high, and more players see the lifelong value of making professional instruction available to new and experienced junior golfers.    On Long Island, summer

What to know about Bethpage course schedules, closures and modifications ahead of the 2025 Ryder Cup

18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central

It's going to be a unique season at Bethpage State Park.  Unlike past years when the Black Course hosted a U.S. Open or PGA Championship before the summer officially arrived, the presence of late September's Ryder Cup will loom over the whole complex for the entirety of the playing season.  Ryder Cup festivities begin on

2025 golf course reopening dates on Long Island

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

As most local golfers know, March is reopening month on Long Island.  Sure, it's still barely above freezing outside and the ground is mush, but as far as cold-weather players are concerned, that's what hand warmers and golf spikes are for.  Long Island's seasonal golf courses are getting set to stick the pins back in

Upgrades at Harbor Links include robots, range renovations and a rebranded Executive Course

18-hole, 9-hole, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, Voices of Long Island Golf

Harbor Links has a new course operator and will soon have a variety of spiffy new amenities to enhance the playing experience. And among those incoming amenities are robots ’97 yes, robots ’97 that will deliver food and drinks to players as they swing their way around the Port Washington golf course.  Kelley Brooke, whose

Bethpage Black and Red land in GOLF Magazine’s Top 100 Courses You Can Play

18-hole, Bethpage, In the News, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore

Another list of top public golf courses, another chance for Bethpage State Park's marquee layout to shine.  Bethpage Black is featured near the top of the latest course ranking, this time GOLF.com/GOLF Magazine's 2024-2025 list of Top 100 Courses You Can Play, though for once the Black Course is forced to step back and cede

2024 closing dates at Long Island’s public golf courses

18-hole, 18-hole, 9-hole, 9-hole, Bethpage, Course Promos and Updates, For Beginners, Nassau Courses, North Shore/Central, South Shore, Suffolk Courses

The handful of public golf courses that close for the Long Island winter typically go dark between the end of Thanksgiving weekend and the middle of December.  Some might hang on until Christmas week if warm weather lingers, but usually the only courses still open by then are the ones that welcome players year-round. So,

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